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Drug task force makes arrests in Ober ECTV tapes Bears Joelle E. Atkinson Campus Life Editor Aimée M. DiMichele Editor-in-Chief

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tudents sunning on the patio of the Baugher Student Center on Wednesday, April 7, ended up as spectators to more than just a Frisbee match. A line of vehicles belonging to both Campus Security and the Lancaster County (Pa.) Drug Task Force lay in wait for roughly a half hour that afternoon, sparking curiosity across our small campus.

For two days the rumor mill ran, until everyone on campus received a memo from Dean of Students Marianne Calenda on Friday, April 9. In addition to the sequence of events, the message clearly explained that “Elizabethtown College prohibits the use, possession, manufacture and distribution of narcotics or other controlled substances, except as expressly permitted by law.”

Representatives of Campus Security could not provide additional information, as it involves an ongoing criminal investigation. However, the Etownian was able to sit down with Calenda and hear her views on the incident.

“These are difficult, serious situations, and the College doesn’t condone drug use [or] violations of the law,” Calenda said. “It is important for students to understand that there are serious ramifications for using, possessing and distributing illegal substances.”

She added that she would be happy to speak with any student individually about commonwealth laws or if he or she has information and wants to share in a confidential manner.

“One of the things I did hear from students about this incident is that some of them were upset that the Task Force

had come in uniform and some of them had ski masks,” Calenda said. “It is my understanding that they use this approach because their team works undercover, and they need to remain concealed when serving a warrant.”

Junior Dillon Gaul found out about the incident while he was at work.

“I overheard someone talking about it in the Jay’s Nest,” he said. “I just started listening more, and I heard more and more as the day progressed.”

In 2008, the College produced the Elizabethtown College Safety and Security Report. There were 117 reported violations of liquor laws, compared to the 10 reported instances of drug abuse.

“I don’t think drugs are a problem on campus because I don’t tend to hear too much about it from people.”

In 2007, the number of reported liquor violations were over 20 times the amount of reported drug abuse. This trend in data shows that incidents like this case are few and far between. This may explain why students rarely hear about drug use at Etown.

“I don’t think drugs are a problem on campus because I don’t tend to hear too much about it from people,” senior Sheri Hihn said.

Sophomore Allie Martin agreed with Hihn.

“I don’t think that we have a drug problem because this is the first time I’ve heard of people using drugs at Etown,” she said.

Gaul shared the same thoughts.

“Sure, we have the occasional parties and whatnot that have alcohol, but no actual drug usage that I’ve come across,” he said.

In 2005, illicit drug use rates among young adults Some of the talk ciraged 18 to 22 were similar for full-time college culating campus includes students (37.5 percent), part-time students (38.5 rumors that the Pennpercent) and nonstudents (38.4 percent). sylvania Liquor Control Enforcement and the Task Force will be visiting and Marijuana usage among full-time college students patrolling campus more aged 18 to 22 is 32 percent, part time students is frequently, especially on 32.1 percent and nonstudents is 32 percent. weekends such as Thank God It’s Spring (T.G.I.S.).

Hallucinogen usage among full-time college Calenda can neither students is 8.1 percent, part-time students is 10.4 confirm nor deny this statement. percent and non-students is 8.3 percent.

“Agencies like the Liquor Control Enforcement and Nonmedical use of prescription pain relievers the Task Force don’t inform among full-time college students is 11.6 percent, me or others of their operapart-time students is 13.4 percent and nonstudents tions,” she explained.

She also assured us that is 13.9 percent. students will be updated on the situation as necessary.

Compiled from http://www.oas.samhsa.gov “If I receive information that I am allowed to share with students and the community,” she said, “then I will certainly share it.”

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t’s not often that college students get the chance to film a professional sports game. However, this opportunity presented itself to junior Steph Couch, junior Tom Pagut, sophomore Sean Duetsch, junior Shelby Meyerhoffer and first-year Robert Koehler on March 27 when they filmed a Hershey Bears game at the Giant Center.

This prospect arose from Duetsch’s desire to tape a Bears game. “We contacted the Bears’ public relations (PR) marketing contact [and] expressed an interest. The PR director looked into it and told us that he thought it would be a great opportunity for us. We could come out, bring a crew of students, and videotape a game,” said Andy Williams, director of broadcasting in the communications department.

Arriving two hours before the start of the game, the Elizabethtown College ECTV crew, consisting of three cameramen and two on-air talents, entered through the press entrance, where they were given their press credentials. They had the same privileges that news reporters and other sportscasters customarily receive at this type of venue.

Once in the stadium, the crew was escorted up to the fifth floor, where a broadcast booth had been reserved specifically for them. Being on the press box level “gave the students an idea of what covering a game for local or national TV would be like,” Williams explained.

Before the game began, Meyerhoffer and Duetsch were given a stack of papers with names of the players and their statistics to ensure that they could both identify each player. “There were only two things I was really worried about: either cutting off Sean midsentence or not being able to think of something interesting to say and then having dead air,” Meyerhoffer said.

The differences between filming Etown sporting events and the Bears game were apparent. “The pressure was there. Hockey is very fast-paced,” Williams said. This is where the anchors came into play. Both Duetsch and Meyerhoffer were able to keep up with the high-speed game. “As fast as the game is, your commentary has to be just as fast. They worked well together; Sean was good at calling plays, and Shelby gave color to the game,” Williams said.

ECTV’s experience with the Bears’ PR staff was a positive one, as well. “It was great. They really rolled out the red carpet for the students.

They answered questions and loved the students’ enthusiasm,” Williams said. The Bears’ contact, John Walton, worked in radio as well as PR, and he was able to provide the students with a plethora of information about the communications field.

“Before we started the game, Sean and I got to walk down a few doors and meet John Walton,” Meyerhoffer said. “It was great to be able to meet and put a face to the voice that I hear on the radio so often. I wish I would have been able to talk with him more and ask him a few questions, though.

That would have been great.”

With all the requests the Giant Center gets for access to their press box, it was a treat for Etown students to gain entrance to such a prestigious spot.

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Adoptive penguins A pair of African penguins have adopted a chick that had trouble hatching, then wasn't cared for by its biological parents at another Colorado zoo.

Officials at the Denver Zoo, the home of the new chick, say it's doing well.

The baby African penguin emerged from its shell at the Pueblo Zoo March 20, but it was four days overdue and needed help from a staff worker to get out.

When the biological parents appeared unable to care for the hatchling, it was taken to Denver and placed with surrogate parents, who immediately began to feed it and keep it warm.

African penguins once came close to extinction and are listed as "vulnerable" by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.

Overdue DVD A longtime Colorado judge has been fired after issuing an arrest warrant for a teenager over an overdue library DVD. Municipal Judge James Kimmel issued the warrant after 19-year-old Aaron Henson failed to show up in court Jan. 14 regarding the overdue DVD, "House of Flying Daggers."

On Jan. 25, police pulled over the teen for speeding and held him for nearly eight hours after discovering the warrant.

Henson had moved and didn't receive the summons to court. The teen said he had packed the DVD in a box and returned it about a week before Henson issued the warrant.

The library notified the judge that the DVD was back.

The Littleton City Council fired Kimmel, who had been a judge for nearly 30 years.

Attack cat Britain's postal service said it has suspended deliveries to a woman following repeated attacks by her 19-year-old cat.

Royal Mail said Friday that it had halted deliveries because postal workers had already sustained "nasty injuries" at the address in the town in northern England.

The owner was identified as a 43-year-old pharmacy worker. Media reports said she found it hard to believe that her cat, named "Tiger," could be behind the attacks.

She told two newspapers the animal spent most of its day sleeping and didn't have the energy to chase postal workers.

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Annual 5K Run remembers Katelyn John Katherine G. Pebley Staff Writer

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he Katelyn John 5K (KJ5K) Memorial Run is held annually in honor of Katelyn John, a member of the Elizabethtown College Class of 2009 who passed away in 2006.

John was born May 7, 1987 and died October 25, 2006. When she attended Etown, she was a member of the occupational therapy program, an Admissions tour guide and a member of the track team. “Katelyn was an amazing person, and I hope people can be inspired by all that she has done for others,” close friend and 2009 alum Chelsea Miles said.

Miles has co-organized the run for the past three years and is coordinating it by herself this year. Her responsibilities include setting up the race logistics, advertising, collecting prizes and working out many other details necessary for such a large occasion. “This event is very important to me personally,” she said, “because Katelyn was one of my closest friends. I am so thankful that I have an opportunity to help organize the run and help to keep her legacy alive.”

Junior Teresa Beshore is involved in the run by getting meal donations, organizing sign-up tables and advertising in the community. Though she never knew John personally, the KJ5K has become important to Beshore. “I’ve seen how her life and her tragic death has affected people who I know and love,” she said. “I’ve learned that this race and memorial is all about remembering Katelyn and carrying on the memories, legacy and love that she left with the people who loved her.”

Another effort that keeps John’s legacy alive is the organization called Kate’s Kids, which is where the money raised by the KJ5K goes. According to their Web

site“Kate’s Kids is a memorial established to help support organizations that minister to children, Katelyn John’s special love. Her family is working to set up an endowment with money contributed to the fund to enable the continued support for such causes as the Comunidad Oscar

dents could participate in and have a fun time. It is a great opportunity to get a group together to either jog or walk in an atmosphere that's all about enjoying the moment and being with those who you love, while also remembering a fellow student and raising funds for a good cause,” she said.

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Katelyn John Memorial Run commemerates the life of an inspiring member of the class of 2009. All the funds raised will go towards Kate’s Kids, a foundation to help support organizations that minster to children.

Arnulfo Romero (COAR) orphanage in El Salvador, the Occupational Therapy program at Elizabethtown College (with an emphasis on pediatric study) and other worthy children’s programs.”

Miles believes that Etown students should participate in the run. “I think it's easy as a college student to become absorbed in our own little worlds, and this is an opportunity to branch out and contribute to an important effort to raise awareness on suicide and to raise funds for a worthy charity,” Miles said. “It is a great opportunity to honor someone who was an important part of the Elizabethtown community and show support for the John family.”

Beshore agreed.

“The KJ5K is an event that all stu-

This year, the Katelyn John Memorial 5K Run/1.5 Mile Walk will be held Sunday, May 9, rain or shine. Registration will start at 6:15 p.m. outside Leffler Chapel, and the run/walk will begin at 7 p.m.. Following the event, a brief candlelight memorial will be held.

For those wanting to get involved in the KJ5K or to learn more about it, the Kate’s Kids Web site (http://teamecxc.com/kj5k/ KJ5K/Welcome.html) provides additional details and registration forms.

“The event is a lot of fun and a great way to finish the semester with friends by getting outside, enjoying the weather, running or walking, eating some delicious food, and remembering a great person,” Miles said.

“Plus, you get a free T-shirt out of the deal.

What could be better than that?”

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Wait, what?: What new health care plan means for you Clayton S. Kaier Guest Writer

bill is uninterruptable, its timeline and main The more money someone has, the better for providing policies that cost $27,500 for points are fairly straightforward. insurance policy he or she can afford and, families or $10,200 for individuals.

The central scope and premise of the bill consequently, the better the quality of care.

2020- The Medicare coverage gap has fter months of political gridlock is to provide affordable health care to all The major changes to the current health been eradicated. and partisan opposition, President Americans while cracking down on insur- care system will take place over the next Regardless of whether or not these Obama signed the Patient Protection ance companies. On paper and in general decade, starting this year. Time Magazine’s changes are viewed as a step forward or a and Affordable Care Act into law. More terms, the bill’s basic ideas may make it lengthy health care edition did an excellent mistake everyone is asking, “What is this commonly referred to as "The Health sound like a home run, but legislature and job explaining the changes and timetable. going to cost?” To answer this question, the Care Bill," it has sparked a heated debate politics are rarely cut-and-dry. The heart of A consolidated version of the overview is bipartisan Congressional Budget Office is across party lines. With the right and left the debate lies in whether these new policies, provided as follows: usually an objective source. Over 10 years, passionately arguing about whether the laws and government programs will carry 2010 - Individuals without coverage due health care reform is expected to cost $940 bill will provide much-needed reform out the aforementioned objective or create to pre-existing conditions will have access billion but to reduce the deficit by $124 or a mere increase to the deficit, this has new problems and increase the deficit. to coverage, and children may continue on billion. Spending money to make money is become one of the most important issues An obvious place to start when examin- their parents’ policies until they turn 27. not a new concept. To an extent, ensuring of our time. ing the bill is to ask, "Why do we need to Insurers can no longer drop coverage when coverage for individuals eliminates the high However, for college students with a change our health care system in the first an individual becomes sick, refuse coverage cost of emergency room visits for taxpayers, myriad of deadlines, responsibilities and ac- place?" An informal poll revealed that most for children who have pre-existing condi- and making insurance companies spend tivities, it is not always easy to stay updated. students have their medical needs satisfac- tions, or establish lifetime coverage caps. money on preventative medical care should The most common question is, "How will torily met under their current insurance Businesses can take advantage of tax credits reduce costs in the long run. However, this the bill affect me?" Many college students plans, coverage under their parents’ poli- as an incentive to provide coverage. Already is a complex processes with almost endless might be inclined to push health insurance cies or through the school. However, this is existing gaps in coverage with Medicare variables, so any speculation regarding an and taxes into a large pile of things to worry not an altogether accurate cross-section of become reduced. exact outcome over the next 10 years should about after graduation, but four years go by America given that, demographically, most 2011- Insurance companies must set be doubted on some level. quickly, and that pile can collapse all too Elizabethtown College students’ socioeco- aside 80 percent of premiums for medical The final and most important question, soon. It is important to note that everyone's nomic status is middle-to-upper-middle coverage. Individuals on Medicare who is “What does this mean for college age situation is unique, and regardless of po- class. Health care is regulated all around fall into the coverage gap can receive a 50 individuals?” Given that the the job market litical affiliation, the best practice is to stay the world, but the means of regulating it percent discount on certain drugs. is bleak at best, it may be difficult for some educated. Despite widespread belief that the is dependent on what type of health care 2013 - Taxes for Medicare increase for graduates to find jobs immediately. Since system the society chooses. individuals who earn over $200,000 a year insurance is frequently acquired through In Canada and Europe, a or families making over $250,000 a year. employers, this creates a problem under the single-payer system is used, 2014 - Uninsured individuals face a old insurance policies. in which taxes cover the penalty if they do not obtain coverage Under the old policy, coverage is only cost and the government (similar to car insurance laws). Families extended from a parent’s plan for kids up provides health care to its can receive aid to purchase insurance if to 23 years old. Therefore, individuals uncitizens almost exclusively they make less than $88,000 a year. Small able to find a job go uninsured. The new via the triage method (a businesses and individuals are allowed policy allows kids to stay on their parents’ process for sorting indi- to get insurance via state exchanges. plan until they turn 27, providing an extra vidual medical needs into Insurers cannot refuse to sell policies four-year grace period for those looking groups based on their need and are restricted in setting prices due to for work and giving the economy time to for or likely benefit from parents’ health. Businesses with over 50 bounce back. This is a huge help to young immediate medical treat- employees must pay a penalty if they do people, since 30 percent of individuals ment). In the U.S., health not provide coverage. between the ages of 19 to 29 are currently Nomination forms for President, Vice-Prescare is regulated monetarily.

2018 - Employers are taxed 40 percent living uninsured. ident, Secretary, Treasurer and Representative positions for the Classes of 2011, 2012 and 2013 are available on the Senate Web site (www. etownsenate.com). These forms are due Friday, April 23 by noon. Please apply if you feel that you would be a good representative for your class.

Ross M. Benincasa or B register at 7 p.m., followed by students whose The Student Senate is working on a strategic Assistant Campus Life Editor last names begin with V through Z at 7:15 p.m. The plan to guide the Senate for the next two years. A department hopes that this time change will bring proposal will be brought to Senate next week, and imes at Elizabethtown College have changed. No about a more favorable response from students who student input is welcome! Check out the Senate longer must we coordinate a time to talk to our have complained relentlessly over the years about the Web site for details! professors during their office hours; we have e-mail for unusual process.

Jr/Sr is Saturday, April 24 in Camp Hill, PA! that now. The same goes for our grades, which can be Although this is the first attempt at a big change Hope to see everyone there!! Come dressed in posted instantaneously on Blackboard by professors, for the education department, many are optimistic. your best! along with commentary about why certain points “I think it is better because we don’t have to fight for

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Correction In “‘Munch and Crunch’ promotes stimulating conversation”, the article stated the dialogues started on a college campus in Missouri. In reality, Diane Elliott first attended them on a college campus in Missouri. It is unclear where the dialogues originated in the country.

The Etownian apologizes for this mistake.

were deducted. Our housing selection is online for the first time this year as well, hopefully making a tedious process much simpler. This was administrators’ thought process when the College brought class selection online with ECWeb’s launch in 2003, and it has generally been successful, taking much of the time-consuming burden off students’ shoulders.

However, one of the largest departments on campus, education, has yet to implement an effective course selection strategy. For years, students were required to arrive at Nicarry sometimes as early as five in the morning, to wait in line and register for the next semester. After hearing students’ complaints for far too long, the department has decided to move the process from the wee hours of the morning to a more reasonable appointment-style format at night.

To register for next semester, students were offered time slots set by the education department beginning at 7 p.m. and extending until 9 p.m. The scheduled times are organized alphabetically alternating between the beginning and the end of the alphabet. For instance, students with last names beginning with A

classes now,” sophomore Tess Lutz said. “We don’t have to be in Nicarry at 4 a.m. to get one [education] class.”

However, there has been some worry expressed by students who carry another major or a minor to supplement their education major. With the organized time slots, students at the end of the night wonder if they will be able to get the classes that are necessary for them to graduate on time. However, Lutz sees this as a problem the education department will be able to fix. “There will definitely be some issues,” Lutz said. “But I think that the [education] department usually does their best to accommodate their students. If someone really needs a class, I’m sure they will work it out.”

No matter how students felt about the old process, most are happier with the later times for registration now and the new organization. No longer will there be students stocked up on Pop-Tarts, waiting as the sun rises to get their classes for the next semester. Hopefully, we will soon see synchronization with ECWeb as well, giving students an even easier way to register for education classes.

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Waite talks on hostage life Financial aid to be examined Emily M. Reigart Assistant Editor

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erry Waite is a big man who has led a big life.

At the 2010 Ware Lecture on Peacemaking on April 13, the British hostage negotiator, humanitarian and author gave an account of the time he spent as a hostage in Beirut, Lebanon. One might assume that the gravity of the story would bring a hush over the Musser Auditorium; however, Waite chose to punctuate his narrative with many humorous anecdotes.

In 1987, Waite was held hostage for 1,763 days because he chose to risk his freedom in the hope of confirming the condition of British hostages taken by Hezbollah. He spent four years of his captivity in solitary confinement. Waite described this cell as windowless and tiled, a design choice made to ease cleaning after “banging up the captives.” He could only to go to the bathroom once daily and was interrogated and tortured because Hezbollah suspected that he had been involved in the Iran Contra scandal.

The few times that he was moved during his captivity, he was covered head to foot in masking tape. “As I’m 6-foot-7, it was a very good day for the masking tape industry,” Waite joked. His large frame presented other difficulties for his captors.

Once he was bound in the tape, they placed him in secure containers — a fridge and

the trunk of a car, which he shared with journalist John McCarthy.

Waite noted that when he first realized there was another person in the trunk, he commented that there wasn’t very much room. McPhoto: S. Alexandra Carthy responded Ward that it had been fine until Waite had arrived.

Within the first hours that he was placed in the cell, he resolved to forgo sentimentality and self-pity. He was also determined to have no regrets. He credits these decisions, as well as his strong faith, with helping him to survive his ordeals.

Even as he was tortured, Waite remembers telling his captors, “You have the power to break my body, and you’ve tried; the power to bend my mind, and you’ve tried; but my soul isn’t yours to possess.”

Waite is the founder of Hostage U.K. and remains active in conflict resolution to this day. Because of his experiences in Lebanon, the media often ask Waite to comment upon issues such as the morality of torture and techniques for hostage negotiation.

He has also written a memoir titled “Taken on Trust” about his experiences as both a hostage negotiator and a hostage.

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very student who attends college is subject to financial scrutiny and analysis.

Schools have formulas to determine how much each student is charged and how much aid he or she can receive. This type of assessment intrigued senior Ben Johnson, who decided to delve deeper into the topic.

His research yielded some intriguing and unexpected results.

“It was interesting to see the impacts of financial aid on the labor market,” he said.

“A woman could take a lower paying job because she would qualify for an … amount of financial aid [equal to] a higher paying job.” Johnson is an economics major in the Elizabethtown College Honors Program, and he hopes to continue this research in graduate school and eventually obtain a Ph.D in economics.

During his analysis of expected family contribution (EFC) and the formulas colleges utilize, he found that, in certain income ranges, there is less of an incentive to have a second parent working because the EFC of that parent would be almost equal to what the financial aid contributes. Each college has a slightly different formula for determining tuition and financial aid allocations. His research did not solely focus on Etown but also looked at larger state colleges. Johnson will be presenting his research at Scholarship and Creative Arts Day (SCAD), Tuesday, April 27.

Johnson is no stranger to SCAD; he has presented at the event for the last three years (2008-10). In addition to this event, he will also be sharing his research at the Student Conference of Business April 7.

Anyone who wants to learn more about Johnson’s research is welcome to attend his April 27 presentation, titled “Economics of College Tuition and Financial Aid.” Dr. Sanjay Paul and Dr. Tom Scheiding, both economics professors, are facility mentors for Johnson’s project. The event program, which will list every presentation’s time and location, will be Courtesy Photo posted on the SCAD Web site after April 16.

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Graduate Heaps signs with professional baseball team Shelby L. Meyerhoffer Staff Writer

After discovering his own love for t he game, He aps worked his way off of the teestand and up in divisions and joined the Avon Grove High School baseball team.

With many successful years of the sport under his belt, Heaps knew he wanted to continue pursuing baseball. ailing from Landenberg, Luckily, former head coach of Pa., just short of the Delthe Etown baseball team Matt aware border, Elizabethtown Jones liked what College Alumnus he saw. “I went to Sam Heaps is applya couple camps, ing what he learned and [Jones] was in college. No, not his a t a c o u p l e ,” college degree. Heaps, Heaps said. “He former pitcher for the started calling Etown Blue Jays, has me and wanted signed a contract with me to come up.” the Independent FronWhile he tier League’s Normal looked at a few Cornbelters for the other colleges, up-and-coming 2010 like Franklin & baseball season.

Marshall and Heaps began his the University of baseball career playing Delaware, Heaps tee ball. “I think I was felt right at home 7 or 8,” Heaps said. “My at Etown. “I did brother actually started l i ke t he te am , before me, even though and I liked the he’s two years younger field … I knew than me, and I used t h a t i t’d b e a to go to his practices.

I ended up thinking I Photo: www.pennlive.com good school to should play because it Sam Heaps winds up to throw a pitch during his graduate from,” Heaps said. look[ed] like fun.” career as a Blue Jay.

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One might assume that tryouts are the most difficult part of a first-year’s baseball experience. In reality, making the team is the easy part. The hard part is getting playing time and earning your spot on the field. “No matter who you are, that’s not easy,” Heaps emphasized. “You just want to do well and impress them.

But I was fortunate when I got here I got to play. I was lucky in that way.”

When the new head coach, Cliff Smith, took over during Heaps’ sophomore year, he believed in Heaps enough to put him on the field as much as possible, without even knowing how he played.

Like many athletes, there were times when Heaps ran into injuries, especially as a pitcher. Heaps’ biggest problem is elbow tendinitis, but fortunately he’s never suffered an injury that required surgery.

“I don’t think I’ve ever missed a start from [an injury], but there would be times

I couldn’t pitch at practice, or I would take it easy,” he said.

During Heaps’ four years on the team, he won three championships. He believes that sharing the accomplishment of a conference championship with teammates is even more exhilarating than the no-hitter he pitched his junior year.

“Championships were a lot more rewarding. It’s a whole season’s worth of work, not just one game,” Heaps said.

After his final college baseball season in 2009, Heaps went down with a friend to try out for the Normal Cornbelters, the team with which he is now signed. “It was a tryout for two days, and I did some throwing … I signed the contract right there after the tryout was over. It was a pretty quick process,” he recalled Heaps only has a fe w weeks left until his debut with the Normal Cornbelters, when they play their first game May 21 against the Evansville Otters.

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Leibrand presents ‘Ransom Notes’ exhibit at Folklore S. Alexandra Ward Assistant Photography Editor

hat began as an innocent friendship flourished into a great love affair. The bond between them was as deep as love could be. That is, the truest form of love is the love between a person and their creations, a love so real it lends a euphoric sense of freedom to the body and to the mind; in Kate’s case, the love of a person for her art.

“It gives me an outlet to do whatever I want to do. I just love it,” junior Kate Leibrand, art education major, said of painting. “It’s a therapy. I know that’s a cliché response, but it really is. When I have a lot on my plate, when I’m painting that’s all I’m thinking about: the music and painting.”

Beginning Friday, April 16 at 6 p.m., Leibrand’s exhibit, “Ransom Notes,” will be featured at Folklore Coffee & Company.

“This is my first individual show,” Leibrand said. “I’ve only ever been in shows here at school before.” A number of Leibrand’s works will be hanging in the coffee house for over two months.

More of Leibrand’s art can be found in Mechanicsburg in “2nd Floor Gallery,” located on the second level of a church.

Leibrand was offered the gallery space at around the same time she was offered the art show.

Though Leibrand’s passion for art has served her well, her future in the field was not always certain. Leibrand came to Elizabethtown College as a biology major and decided after a semester that science wasn’t for her. “I took art lessons from fifth grade until maybe freshman year of high school,

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and then I stopped taking them until senior year. We didn’t really have a big program for art, and I couldn’t fit it in until my last year of high school,” she said.

Because she always loved art but considere d it a hobby, L eibrand switched from her original biology major to an education major with an art minor. Unlike most other education concentrations, art education had not been offered as an option for education majors. “We finally came up with it the end of my freshman year, so, for a semester, I was in limbo. I wasn’t in any major, I was just taking credits,” Leibrand said.

Leibrand and Professor Patricia Ricci, head of the art department, worked together to come up with the art education major. Art majors can now specialize in art history, studio art or art education.

Ricci and Leibrand developed a curriculum combining education courses and art courses. “Professor Ricci had already been thinking about developing an art education program, and we just sat down and discussed what classes I would have to take,” Leibrand said.

When Leibrand isn’t in the art studio working on new pieces, she’s involved in other on-campus extracurricular activities.

“I’m manager of both the track and field and the cross country teams, and I am a representative for Senate,” she said. All her on-campus activities keep her busy, but she still has time to create art that will be recognized by students and the community as a testament to her passion for painting.

“Sometimes I don’t realize it, but when people look at my artwork, they can tell what kind of mood I was in when I painted it,” Leibrand said. “I hope it’s inspiring.”

Image: www.kateleibrand.webs.com

An example of Leibrand’s artwork, a painting titled ‘Portrait.’ Pieces similar to this will be on display at the Folklore coffee shop starting April 16.

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PostSecret provides outlet, relief from private pain Laura E. Kuserk Staff Writer

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rank Warren hears a lot of secrets. Since Jan. 1, 2005, thousands of people have sent Warren handmade postcards with a secret that they have never told anyone before.

He then posts these anonymous secrets every Sunday on his Web site www.postsecret. blogspot.com.

Warren got the idea for his Web site when he was on vacation in Paris. According to his second Web site, www.postsecretcommunity.com, he had a dream about some postcards that he had purchased while on his vacation.

Shortly thereafter, he started a project called “The Reluctant Oracle,” in which Warren threw 47 bottles containing cryptic messages into Clopper Lake near Washington, D.C. One of these messages bore the phrase, “You will find your answers in the secrets of strangers.” This message

inspired Warren to start his next project: PostSecret.

In order to get the word out about his venture, Warren sent 3,000 postcards to people in Washington, D.C. asking them to tell him their secrets. He only asked that the secrets be true and unknown by any other person. At first he displayed these confessions in an art gallery.

After his showcase was over, however, Warren still received postcards, so he decided to create his blog and continue the enterprise.

The secrets sent to Warren range from those sexual in nature to illegal acts and embarrassing moments. Some of the secrets he has received include: “I sit in public and pretend to read, but I’m actually eavesdropping on your conversation.”

“When I walk down the street I look at other women and think ‘My God! What Oprah could do with you in a makeover!’”

“I am tired of taking pills to make me feel better.”

Warren has said that he created the blog so that people can feel more connected to strangers and also feel empowered to admit their own admissions, no matter how embarrassing, funny or dark those secrets may be.

“I’ve received e-mails from people who have mailed in postcards, and one of the things they’ve shared with me is that facing their secret on a postcard and then physically letting it go to a stranger, into a mailbox, has brought them a sense of relief or catharsis,” Warren said in an interview with Seattle. net. “Maybe it’s the first step in a long journey that person is going to go on in reconciling with a part of themselves they’ve been hiding.”

Students at Elizabethtown College agree that sharing secrets with a stranger can be a release.

“Sometimes I do feel that it

is easier to share secrets with complete strangers because they don’t know who you are, so they aren’t as quick to judge,” senior Kristina Psitos said. “However, I don’t feel that sharing your secrets on the Internet is appropriate regardless of if it’s anonymous or not. Sharing a secret with just one person, a stranger or an acquaintance, is one thing, but sharing it with the Internet world is another.”

The blog was so successful that Warren launched his second Web site to give followers more information. The site lists upcoming events, talks and movies that Warren has created, which feature people confessing their secrets. Also on the Web site is a forum where people can chat about the Sunday secrets or confess their own. Additionally, fans can follow Frank Warren’s Twitter, @postsecret, be Warren’s friend on MySpace,

or become a fan of PostSecret on Facebook. Warren has released five books of secrets over the years: “PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives,” “My Secret: A PostSecret Book,” “The Secret Lives of Men and Women: A PostSecret Book,” “A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book,” and “PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death, & God.” In e ach b o ok, War ren shares one of his own secrets, but signs his name to it instead of sharing it anonymously.

A grassroots movement also began in which people would hide their personal postcards within the PostSecret books, an extra surprise for purchasers. If you want to send in a secret of your own, you can mail your postcard to: PostSecret 13345 Copper Ridge Road Germantown, MD 20874

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Best ways to impress in a dress

Compiled by Campus Security Commentary by Ross M. Benincasa Assistant Campus Life Editor

Lindsay D. Goldsmith Beauty Columnist

look for something that “cinches at the narrowest part of your waist,” as the famous Stacey London always tells us.

A waist that is too high can make your legs look hen you look at the selection of magazines these days, one word stands out above all a little too long — especially if you are wearing a others — prom. Unfortunately for college students, floor-length gown — and make you look disproprom is a thing of the past, so these magazines are portionate. Taller girls also have to be careful about really of no use to us. However, we do have a simi- mini-dresses because they can often hit a little too high on your figure, and the lar event for which we may need fashion last thing you want is to advice: the Junior/Senior formal. have a Paris-Hilton- oopsWhether you are a lucky first-year or I-forgot-to-wear- undersophomore who been invited by an upwear moment in a room full perclassman, or a junior or senior who of people you go to school has waited years to attend, you want to with every day. look amazing. Here are some tips that can As far as necklines go, vhelp you look fabulous for the big night. necks are going to make The most important thing to remember is to smaller chests look bigfind a dress in which you feel beautiful, not ger, whereas scoop or one that your mom, aunt, grandmother, sweetheart necklines will brother’s girlfriend or cousin’s friend’s hold larger chests in. daughter thinks you look good in No matter if you are (though, if they like it, too, that’s great). big- or small-busted, The point is, if you feel beautiful when in doubt, go in the dress, you will be confident, for less cleavage and confidence is the best accesrather than more sory you can have. If you don’t with your dress. think you look stunning in the Too much cleavage dress, it will show, and others looks trashy and seriwill notice.

Image: dollydagger.com ously ups your chances That said, also keep in mind that of a wardrobe malfunction.

As great as Janet Jackwhat looks fantastic on your best friend may not look good on you. Each girl’s body is different son is, I don’t think any of us want to emulate a and can be flattered in various ways. Every girl certain Superbowl performance.

When it comes to the color of your dress, if is fabulous in her own way, but we all have flaws, and your mission is to find a dress that hides your you want to go with the “Old Hollywood” theme flaws and emphasizes your assets (and if you have of this year’s Junior/Senior, black, white, red, navy a fab booty, feel free to take that as pun intended). or emerald green is perfect. Pinks and purples are For all you shorter chicas out there, high- great, too, if you want to do more of your own waisted, floor-length gowns and mini-dresses are thing. Jewel tones are best for formal events like your friends. A high waist (tightest right under this, so try and stay away from pastels. However, “the twins”) is going to make it look like your legs if you find a dress you feel amazing in that is a start a lot higher, elongating your body and mak- lighter color, go for it!

Feeling beautiful is what’s most important. ing you look taller and thinner.

Avoid any dresses that fall between your knees The only color you should really try to stay and the ground because they are not only going away from is yellow. It is not a flattering color to cut you off at a bad point, making you look no matter your skin tone. Orange isn’t the best, shorter, but they are also going to make you look either, but it’s a better option than yellow.

Above all, ladies, feel fabulous — because that wider — something no girl wants.

If you’re a taller girl, although a high waist (and having an amazing time) is what this night would still probably be flattering, you want to is really about.

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• On April 7, the Lancaster Drug Task Force arrived on campus to serve a warrant to search a room in Ober Residence Hall. As a result, the Task Force officers took one student and one guest of the College into custody. Another student was cited for drug-related violations but not apprehended. One of the students was placed on interim suspension and prohibited from setting foot on campus pending a Student Conduct Hearing.

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On April 9, representatives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, also known as the Mormons, were found soliciting door-to-door around the Quads. They claimed that one of the students had requested their presence. After arguing for a bit, Campus Security was able to escort the men and each of their seven wives off campus grounds.

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On April 2, a student and guest were written up for a possible alcohol violation when a Campus Security officer found them on the north side of Brinser Hall with a plastic bottle of Calico Jack rum. The student was thought to have simply had poor judgment — not in his choice to drink in Brinser, but in his choice to purchase Calico Jack.

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Campus Security and the Elizabethtown Borough Police Department served a DUI to a female student at the Quads Saturday, April 10, after she repeatedly hit the car behind her when attempting to back out of her parking spot. [Insert sexist joke here]

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Campus Security was called to the Marketplace when a disorderly group of students was accused of drinking alcohol in the middle of the cafeteria. Dear Students: Kudos on finding the place with the best mixers to pre-game on campus. However, maybe next time make it less obvious by not kicking people off the table to set up beer pong.

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On March 24, Campus Security discovered students smoking marijuana in Ober Residence Hall. Wow, I’m getting really tired of writing this every week.

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Campus Security responded to a call of disorderly conduct at the High Library, where two students were being defiant of the late-night staff refused to leave when the library closed. Oh, kids in Ober.

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Volleyball team ‘rules the roost’ in bird fighting battle Patricia A. Cangelosi Copy Editor

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f I were a boy, I’d win Battle of the Birds – the crowd would laugh and cheer. The judges would adore us, and we’d just have to take off our shirts …”

Senior Paige Tanner’s rendition of Beyoncé Knowles’ hit kicked off the winning performance of Battle of the Birds, Sunday at 7 p.m. in Leffler Chapel. It was the third annual Blue Jay athletic talent show.

Representatives from the women’s volleyball team emerged on stage in hooded sweatshirts and sweatpants, entertaining an audience of about 175 students, parents and Elizabethtown College staff with an exercise/stretching/dancing routine. The players also shook their booties to Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance.” The act ended with Beyoncé’s voice singing “If I Were a Boy” as Tanner found herself alone on stage, worriedly eyeing the softball that had mysteriously appeared in her shorts.

“As far as I’m concerned, this team was the best,” business professor Dr. Emma Neuhauser, one of the judges, said of women’s volleyball.

“They were more coordinated than the other teams,” economics professor Dr. Tom Scheiding, another judge, said. The third judge was development employee and 2005 graduate Ben Osterhout.

In second place was women’s basketball, creating a scene in which their head coach gave them advice on how to improve their game. Following each piece of advice, they performed a well-choreographed skit. They danced to scenes from “Remember the Titans,” “Dirty Dancing,” Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” “Napoleon Dynamite,” “Slumdog Millionaire” and “Sister Act.” The men’s track and field team came in third, performing an act somewhat similar to women’s volleyball. Five representatives from the team engaged in a mix of stretching, running, dancing, thrusting and grunting, which the audience and the judges seemed to enjoy greatly. Some audience

members were slightly disappointed that, though the men removed their sweatshirts, their shirts stayed on.

The baseball team danced and lip-synced along to “TiK ToK” by Ke$ha. They looked sharp in sunglasses, jeans and button-down shirts (which also stayed on the whole time), but the judges felt their overall performance was lacking. “If there were an award for most members of the team on stage, this team would definitely win it,” Osterhout said.

However, there was only one trophy, which had apparently been lost last year after the men’s basketball team won the competition. The trophy turned up again Sunday evening and was awarded to the proud women’s volleyball team after a brief intermission.

Many wondered why the men’s basketball team, who won first place last year, decided not to participate this year. According to sophomore basketball player Dan Silver, “We were clearly going to win again, so we just wanted to give the other teams a chance.

How would you feel if you were competing in a contest and you knew the same team

would win every time? For me, that would be disheartening.”

Silver declined to comment on what the team had been planning for their performance in case players want to use it in the future. The team decided to drop out of the contest only days before the show.

The Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) planned the event, and all proceeds from the $2 tickets went to the Special Olympics. “[Our] mission is to bring together the student-athletes and the rest of campus to make sure that there isn’t a void in between the two,” senior Kayla Deats, SAAC president and volleyball team member, said.

“It’s really entertaining,” senior Meghan Tooley, SAAC vice president and softball player, added. “It’s like the Mr. Etown for athletic teams.”

Scheiding, who also served as a judge for the Mr. Etown contest, sees future opportunities in the field for himself: “I could go on to judge farm shows, or spelling bees or just general talent competitions.”

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SPARC Seeking New Members

• SPARC (Students Promoting Awareness and Responsible Choices) is a campus group that promotes wellness and healthy living on the Elizabethtown College campus.

• SPARC generally deals with issues such as responsible drinking, stress management, eating disorders and practicing safe sex.

• They are the producers of “Toilet Talk” and “John Door News.”

• By joining SPARC, students have the opportunity to become Certified Peer Educators.

• Students will develop leadership skills and understand the impact of unhealthy behaviors.

• Members of SPARC also work with the Elizabethtown College Donor Club through the Central Penn Blood Bank to host multiple blood drives throughout the year.

• SPARC applications are available in The Well outside the pool or in Sandy Spayd’s office, located in the Center for Student Success.

• Applications are due April 19.

April 15, 2010

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VocabSushi helps prepare for testing Christina M. Bucci Staff Writer

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t starts off the same way: you write down a word on an index card and its definition on the back. As you continue to do this, the pile gets higher and higher. And then, for hours it is the same mundane task of flipping over each index card and quizzing yourself. Sometimes you even try to use bright colors, highlighting or a big Sharpie to help. Yet the outcome is unavoidable: you get extremely bored, extremely fast, and decide that the best decision is to just give up.

Now there is finally a better method to study definitions, learn new words and build vocabulary with an interactive approach that actually works. It can all be done by going to www.vocabsushi.com.

This site utilizes “Bite Size Learning,” an effective method of truly learning vocabulary words. This approach does not overwhelm the learner by going through the tedious motion of clicking on a word and picking the definition; instead it takes learners through sentences to really understand the word.

Founder Jeff Novich was an SAT tutor for six years and found it was very difficult for students to learn such an extensive amount of vocabulary.

“I realized students weren’t learning vocabulary effectively,” he said. “They just tried to memorize lists of definitions but couldn’t use the words appropriately in sentences.”

That was when Novich realized that putting a word in a sentence and reading the word helped students to remember what it meant.

The reasoning behind VocabSushi is that when you learned English, you did not sit down with 1,000 note cards and just memorize definitions. Instead, you listened to people talk and read different stories. And when there was a word you did not understand, you looked at the surrounding context and figured out the definition through that.

With this philosophy, Novich created VocabSushi to do just that: teach someone to learn by reading and using the context to work out what the definition is.

When you go to the site, it is recommended to take a diagnostic test of about 50 words to gauge your current vocab level. By doing this, you can immediately begin to learn instead of wasting time with words you already know.

Though this site targets anyone who wants to enhance or build his or her vocabulary, there is a selection for students that allows them to pick from different tests (GRE, SAT, ACT, MCAT) in order to match their learning needs.

As you begin to go through the words in whichever test you choose, the site will automatically track your progress. “Any student studying for the GRE or any other post-grad standardized test that has vocab will benefit greatly from VocabSushi,” Novich said.

When Novich came up with the idea of using sentences for each vocabulary word, he did not want to use regular sentences. Instead, he placed each word within a sentence from a recent news article.

“VocabSushi uses real sentences taken from the news to help you understand the words in context. So if you’re learning ‘obsequious’ but understandably do not know how to use it in a sentence, VocabSushi can show you a bunch of sentences taken from recent articles that used it,” Novich said.

This not only helps you understand the word, but also makes the word relevant to the user. You can also choose a particular newspaper that you read, so that you can kill two birds with one stone: enjoyable reading and studying.

VocabSushi is relatively new, but it could make a big impact on Elizabethtown’s campus.

Senior Rebekah Arbogast feels that this new site will help her study for future tests as well as build her vocabulary.

“I love how the site is so individualized,” she said. “It will definitely help me in so many ways, and I cannot wait to tell others about it.”

Assistant Director of Alumni Relations Jake Keeler feels this will not only help students, but also help him with a new endeavor.

“I’m currently trying to learn a new language and have been having a tough time because words that are not in English have no meaning to me,” he said. “Memorization is all about forming associations in our minds, and this site is great at forming those associations.”

With the extensive list of benefits this site offers, it is bound to become a staple in studying or just building vocabularly — it may even make you crave some California rolls.

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Autism Awareness Month offers new perspective, insight

Danielle B. Cantor Staff Writer

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ational Autism Awareness Month has been in practice since the 1970s, when the Autism Society recognized a need to educate and spread awareness about those affected by autism.

Autism is a language-based developmental disorder that affects communication skills and often causes hypo– or hyper-sensitivity. The group Linking Elizabethtown Students to the Autism Community (LINK) is a club on campus dedicated to spreading awareness and reaching out to the community.

On April 8, LINK showed the movie “Mozart and the Whale,” which tells the love story of two individuals with Asperger Syndrome, a form of autism.

A discussion led by special education professor Dr. Merry Staulters followed.

LINK also held a “Sensory

Night” April 13 in Esbenshade.

Participants took part in activities that demonstrated how people with autism interact with the world, such as making stress balls, creating gak, painting with pasta, blowing bubbles and finger painting.

The month’s final event will be a benefit to encourage further awareness and raise money for autism research to help those affected by the disorder. The benefit begins at 7 p.m. on April 28 and costs $2 to attend.

LINK holds activities throughout the year. One of them is a social skills group for adolescents with autism that helps to orient them to group situations. The club plans to organize outings each month.

So far, these have included a bowling night and a trip to Hershey’s Chocolate World.

Memb ers of LINK p articipate in a “buddy” program, that matches them with a child with autism. They work with their buddies one-on-one,

playing games and developing social skills. The club also offers training to Etown students and communit y memb ers through a program called Autism 101.

Those who have worked with people with autism know what a special experience it can be, though not without its challenges.

Junior Felicia Bonvicino, an occupational therapy major, has spent her last two summers as a counselor at a camp for children with special needs.

About half of the campers in her groups have autism.

“I enjoyed working there every single day, even though some days were difficult,” Bonvicino said. “ The children were extremely intelligent and would love to focus on a topic, and they knew everything about it.

I learned about all the different species of bugs, about dinosaurs and everything there is to know about Transformers.”

To B onvicino, the challenges were worth it: “After

you spend the summer with the children, you learn what upsets them, what they love, and you learn ever ything about them. I enjoyed watching them progress from the first day of camp to saying goodbye to them on the last day. I loved getting notes from the parents at the end of the camp and hearing about how much we impacted their child’s life.”

Dr. Judy Eriksen, an occupational therapy professor, often works with young people with autism. Sensory issues can be difficult for children with autism in busy

or unstructured classes, so it is Eriksen’s job to find ways to help them.

As far as working directly with the children, she treats them no differently than any other client and uses the same occupational therapy approaches.

“Some people are just wired in a way that makes them look or act differently or struggle, and it is important for people to be accepting,” Eriksen said. “We need to embrace those differences.”

To find out more about Autism Awareness Month, log on to www.autism-society. org or contact LINK at LINK@ etown.edu.

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Perceiving personhood Jonathan S. Gamble Staff Writer

that a potential for life is eliminated.

The circumstance(s) under which the potential for life should or should not roving when personhood begins be aborted is also an ethical question.

Let us consider some circumis a necessary condition to the moral correctness of abortion under stances. A mother may abort the pocurrent law. If it were not, then a tential human life before the second valid distinction between a person trimester begins if it is more conveand a fetus would not exist, and nient than raising the child or finding abortion would have no basis other suitable parents for adoption. She than convenience or the mother’s may do so because doctors are cerhealth. Abortions should be illegal tain the child will be mentally challenged, physiuntil the stage cally deformed, of development or exhibit some at which a fetus other health becomes a perdisadvantage. son is clarified.

She may abort The current b e c au s e s h e designation would rather of the first trithe eventual mester does child not grow not identify the up in a particdistinction beImage: Wordpress.com ular lifestyle, tween fetus and person. The first trimester is the point such as poverty, fatherlessness, or after which it is unhealthy for the violence. She may abort because her mother to undergo abortion. There is desire to have a child has changed or no valid biological or psychological because she did not intend to have a information that accounts for why a baby, and it will limit her personal 3-month-old fetus is only a fetus and growth. However, none of these cira 3-month-and-10-day-old fetus is a cumstances is of greater necessity person. Until a valid reason exists, than a potential for human life, and none of them seems to put the baby’s abortion is not yet right.

Whether a mother who chooses interests above the mother’s. Or does to abort is aborting a person or only a baby even have interests?

The circumstances that have tradia potential person requires more scientific research than that which tionally superseded that necessity are currently informs our ethics and when the baby has been conceived our law. There are many opinions, or through rape or when giving birth preferences, as to when personhood will undoubtedly or probably risk begins. Some say that it begins at the mother’s life. While the former conception. Others assert that it be- greatly pulls at our heartstrings, the gins at consciousness or other mental unfortunate circumstances by which capacities. Arguments can exist for a potential person was conceived do every physical and psychological not inform whether or not it should be born. Options such as adoption degree in between.

The fact that there is (and may or an orphanage may be available. always be) widespread disagreement If such options for some reason are as to which developmental stage unavailable, I have not yet reached witnesses a fetus come into its own an opinion.

Therefore, the only circumstance warrants further consideration of the means by which we can truly deter- under which the abortion of potential mine the phenomenon. Is the begin- and actual persons should be allowed ning of personhood even a legitimate is when giving birth will undoubtedly question for science and psychology, or probably risk the mother’s life. The or does it belong to another field? mother’s life is of greater necessity If empirical or mathematical proof than a fetus or underdeveloped huis not sufficient, then what is? I do man for two reasons: she is more of a not think that any proof in any field person, and birthing the child could is sufficient. Determining the single kill them both.

Because I do not think there is precipice off of which a fetus falls into humanness will be as subjective as an indelible line demarcating personhood from non-personhood, all identifying the meaning of life.

But let’s suppose I’m wrong about we can know is potential personthat, and there is a means by which hood. What should the legal cona genesis of humanness is discovered sequences be for eliminating this? viably. Are abortions before that point I have no idea. But I certainly am morally acceptable? A philosopher not in favor of incarcerating people once said that we should determine for murder, burning down abortion the morality of the person by his or clinics or voting for a warmonger her intentions and the morality of instead of a peacemaker just bethe act by its consequence(s). Within cause the latter is pro-choice. All the confines of the law, we are usually I am saying is that the burden of concerned with consequences. The proof has not been met and that undeniable consequence of an abor- our society should become a better tion at any stage of development is reflection of this.

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romance column

Cootie nostalgia

Samantha T. Phillips Assistant Opinion Editor

Disclaimer: The names in this article have been changed for fear of embarrassment/Facebook stalking.

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he worst thing about that first kiss was the smell of the movie theater: that sickening aroma of overlybuttered popcorn mingled with the sweat of hormonal teenagers. I found myself nauseous at the thought of swapping spit with the boy whose arm was draped around my shoulders. Gerald Feldman was an athletic young Jewish boy with a passion for ska music, rebellious clothing and girls. Braces decorated his large teeth, and his head was haloed by foot-long liberty spikes crafted using at least half a bottle of hair gel. I was in love. We probably would have staged a runaway marriage except for the fact that his mother wanted him to marry a nice Jewish girl, and I was a 12-year-old groupie who donned band T-shirts and Converses. It also didn’t help that I was afraid of anything overtly sexual. I would shiver at the slightest touch and wriggle out of his embraces. What occurred under the clothing of my male classmates was a mystery I had no interest in uncovering, and whenever I thought about it, my imagination re-created the plot from the movie “What Lies Beneath.” Killer naked men crept, uninvited, into my nightmares, their “male parts” drawn like sharpened blades.

Gerald was growing tired of settling for hallway high fives (see Image: penn-olsen.com National High Five Day, pg. 8 & 9) when he could be tongue-wrestling with Stephanie Otter, who would, as my mother put it, “give out the milk for free.” So I had to make my move, and I had to make it fast. There we were, watching the re-mastered edition of “E.T.,” both acutely aware of what was to come. I was convulsing like a crack baby, my palms drenched in sweat. Poor Gerald struggled so hard to initiate the kiss, leaning close to my face and grazing his lips against my cheek. At one point he even resorted to whispering the lyrics of “Your Body is a Wonderland” into my ear. My head didn’t make a single movement.

I stared straight ahead at the alien on the screen, who I still swear is Danny Devito and Jabba the Hut’s love child. I was intent on avoiding this kiss. I approached it much like I do my schoolwork now: “Maybe if I ignore it, it will go away.”

Eventually, the movie got to me with its touching moments and quotations like, as E.T. touches his finger to his chest, “Oooouuuccchhh.” I caved.

I turned to Gerald, my eyes squished shut and my mouth slightly open. I probably looked Image: empireonline.com like I was defecating or bearing a child, but all I cared about was getting this moment over with. Gerald leaned over, smashed his lips against mine and searched for my tonsils with his eager tongue. I nearly gagged. He pulled away with a devilish smile on his face that said, “Yeah, you loved it.” No, Gerald, I didn’t love it. I dumped him the next day and vowed never to kiss another boy for the remainder of my life.

Looking back on it, I wonder when things changed.

When did I decide that succumbing to male advances was not so bad, or even fun sometimes? It makes me feel like I have terrible willpower. I should have stuck to my guns and turned my back on the Geralds of the world. Think of all the times I would have had to … play Frisbee and stuff. A friend of mine recently told me that she knows a 31-year-old woman who still hasn’t kissed a man. She’s had plenty of opportunities but simply has no interest. And she’s not a lesbian. Now that’s dedication.

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in the world

Organ donation:‘You have the power to become a hero’ Joelle E. Atkinson Campus Life Editor

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ast year, Steve Jobs stepped out of the limelight for several months. Reporters and gossip columnists slammed him when he presented at Apple’s annual World Wide Developer’s Conference in Silicon Valley looking sickly and frail only months before his leave of absence from Apple. Though he has a history of pancreatic cancer and other health-related issues, it was a life-saving liver transplant that allowed Jobs to come back into the spotlight and reveal Apple’s latest creation, the iPad. George Lopez is one of the biggest activists for the Hispanic population, but he is also a spokesperson for organ and tissue donation awareness. In 2005, he was diagnosed with Polycystic Kidney Disease, and his only hope for survival was an organ transplant. He was fortunate enough to be given the gift of life by his wife later that year.

Others are not so lucky. Within the next five years, organ donation will touch us all. The boy who sits next to you in class or the girl who lives across the hall could be saved by someone who said “yes” to giving the gift of life.

In college, we often feel as though we are invincible.

We drink our Corona and Smirnoff Vodka and act like we are better than anything and nothing can destroy us. But it isn’t true. We can drink all we want and try

to escape into a drunken oblivion, but one day, we will have to face reality: and that reality is that we can make a difference.

tunate enough to receive two kidney transplants. Twentyyear-old Gab Archangelo of New Jersey and her mom are both here today thanks to the kindness and generosity of several organ donors. There are over 105,000 people waiting for organs and the list grows daily.

The stories that you don’t hear are those of the people who don’t receive their organs in time. The faces of the donation movement are often those who have survived due to an organ transplant, but not everyone is that lucky. Eighteen people die every day waiting for the call saying that an organ is available.

Individuals spend months and even years waiting and hoping for a gift that never comes.

I was one of the lucky ones. I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for organ donation. As a baby who wasn’t expected to make it past her second birthday, I received Image: Windsororgantransplant.org a kidney transplant at eighteen months, a generous You alone can save and enhance the lives of more than gift from my father. I was able to dance, make friends 70 people. We aren’t invincible and we won’t live forever, and grow up as any other young girl would. When I was but we can save lives. We can be a hero to someone who nine, organ donation once again saved my life when I needs our help, and it doesn’t cost a dime. If you sign up received a kidney and a liver transplant. It has allowed to be an organ donor, you have the power to save lives me to go to college, to grow as a person and to live my even after you are gone. life the way it was meant to be lived.

Organ donation is a cause worth fighting for. It is It is easy to be an organ donor. It is easy to save a life. something that has effected many people. Several friends Simply go to www.donatelife-pa.org/campus-challenge of mine were saved because someone said “yes” in their and sign up. Talk with your family about your decision, time of need. Eight-year-old Michael Snyder of New and realize that you have the power to save and change Jersey is able to play all-star baseball because he was for- a life. You have the power to become a hero.

editorial response

letter to the editor

Bad reporting unfairly typifies Journalistic boundaries Karen Hodges Coordinator of Religious Life Programs

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t’s unfortunate how many homeless people there are in America, and it is disappointing to me how a local homeless man was depicted in the March 25 edition of the Etownian.

Having just spent a week in Los Angeles with 23 Elizabethtown College students during spring break working with the homeless population, we learned that although some homeless people are responsible for their current situation, many are on the streets because life threw them a curveball they could do nothing about.

We also learned that no matter what their circumstances, the homeless deserve

our respect, not ridicule, just by virtue of their humanity.

I feel that the article written about Mr. Armstrong was disrespectful and showed prejudice toward the homeless in general. Homeless people are members of society, too, and unless you know their story, there is no justification in characterizing Mr. Armstrong the way the article did. What is Mr. Armstrong’s story?

How does he care for his diabetes? Where does he sleep at night? We don’t know — because the article reported next to nothing about him.

I am disappointed that the Etownian chose to characterize Mr. Armstrong in this way, and also that due to a timing issue, was unable to write about our spring break service trip to LA — a week that taught us the importance of respecting the homeless.

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Articles strengthen stigmas

Allison D. Burket OT Grad Student

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am writing in response to the two articles recently printed in the March 25 edition of the Etownian. While I admire the journalists’ confidence and willingness to interview Charles Armstrong, what was printed seemed to have no purpose than to convey to the community that this man was just as “crazy” as he appears.

Of the up to 2 million people that experience homelessness, an estimated one quarter of them suffer from some mental illness. Lack of stability and limited access to healthcare can make the situation even worse. Some of these illnesses can impact an individual’s thought processes, speech, and behaviors.

Sadly, there is a huge stigma in today’s society regarding mental illness, and this stigma only grows when people judge and ridicule,

without seeking to better understand the underlying issues.

I do not intend to assume or project that Mr. Armstrong has a mental illness. My intention and hope is to encourage everyone to take heed before passing judgment on another human — whether they be a man with a cart, or a peer living down the hall. We don’t know exactly why or how Mr. Armstrong is here and doing what he does, but we can have respect for him as a person without unfairly deriding him.

I think it’s sad that articles displaying blatant disregard for Mr. Armstrong’s dignity and ignorance to the greater issues were printed in our respected college’s newspaper. Acceptance of this type of biased writing will only perpetuate negative stigmas about homelessness, mental illness, and anyone who happens to be different than those of us outside the sheltered walls Elizabethtown College.

Peter S. Northrop Features Editor

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n features writing, you’re told to be more “creative” and descriptive — to focus on the soul of the people you’re interviewing, as opposed to the bare bones plot and facts of a subject.

And so we met Robert the artist.

(We published his real name in our last issue, but he has since said that he prefers people to not use his real name in writing.) Assistant Opinion Editor Sam Phillips and I interviewed him on a beautiful spring day in March. He made us laugh, we made him laugh — we delighted in each other’s presence. We made friends with Robert, and we wanted to share his quirky genius with the world.

Since then, we’ve learned there is prodigious danger in developing an emotional connection with a subject for features writing — for some pretty heavy mistakes were made.

In our articles, Sam and I focused on the moments of our interview with Robert where we laughed with him, rather than the parts that provided more expository information on him.

My article is actually an excerpt from an essay I submitted for a creative non-fiction class about the process of interviewing Robert.

An actual article was written about Robert, but our executive board got a hold of the more “creative” essay and opted to publish that instead.

This decision was made fairly close to printing time, and in our editing process, we neglected to splice in vital details about Robert’s backstory. For this, we are very sorry.

To address Ms. Hodges’ concerns, Robert is not as much a homeless man as he is a wandering artist.

The majority of his nights are spent in a hotel. While he was in Etown, he claimed to have slept in the Red Rose Motel every night, stating that he spent $4,000 while in the area. He makes enough money from donations and selling his paintings to buy food, medication and shelter. He also is proud to say he is able to maintain two cell phones.

We don’t know much about Robert’s story because he didn’t tell us much. What is in the article about his journey to Pennsylvania is honestly all he would tell about it. To treat his diabetes, Robert takes glucose pills.

That is all he said on the subject.

Robert doesn’t let his disease define him. He lives for his art and his quest to find a girlfriend. This is why we focused on his search for love. It’s what he cared most about — and what we cared about, too. He is a man searching for love and only finds women who take advantage of his kindness.

Seeing that honestly broke my heart.

Ms. Burket was right in not assuming Robert is suffering from any mental illness. Robert is a man who is very aggressively his own person.

He simply does not care for social niceties, and he speaks his heart powerfully. The way he was portrayed in my article is exactly as he is. He simply has a very distinct — if not profane — voice. We would never try to exploit Robert — especially since he is already exploited so much by the women to whom he gives kindness without return. He told us to publish an article to help him “find a girlfriend,” for that is his foremost desire. Forgive us for focusing a little too much on his soul and not his story.

We will try to be more expositional in the future.

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April 15, 2010

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Lady Jays 4-4 in conference play, tied for third place Aimée M. DiMichele Editor-in-Chief

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he Elizabethtown College softball team nipped the DeSales University Bull Dogs in a nonconference softball double header Wednesday afternoon at The Nest. The Lady Jays won the first game 7-3 and 4-1 in game two.

Senior Sarah Church went 2-3 at the plate in both games.

In the second game, she became the 13th player in the history of Etown softball to reach a 100th career hit. Sophomore Julie Sebastian pitched game one, earning her eighth win of the season. Her performance was followed by firstyear Emily Vogel, who gave up just three hits in game two.

After their April 7 doubleheader at Juniata was postponed, the Lady Jays returned to the field in full force, defeating the Albright College Lions in both games of last Saturday’s doubleheader.

“We really pulled together and overcame our previous five-game losing streak,” Church said.

Though Albright gained a 1-0 lead in the first inning of game one, Etown answered with two runs by senior Paige Tanner and first-year Whitney Breneman, as well as a homer from first-year Elly McCarthy, bringing the score to 3-1.

By the third inning, Albright had tied up the game, but two more runs by Tanner and sophomore Heather Peluso brought Etown back into the lead. The Lions managed to score again in both the fifth and seventh innings, bringing the score to a close 6-5, but the Lady Jays showed no fear: pitcher Sebastian kept the tying run at bay with an infield pop-up and a fielder’s choice grounder, ending the game.

After two scoreless innings at the beginning of game two,

the Lions secured a run at the top of the third. The Lady Jays matched Albright in the bottom of the third as Breneman rounded home plate.

With the score tied 1-1, the Lady Jays brought the heat in the bottom of the fifth, racking up seven runs

by Breneman, Tanner, Church, senior Ryan Allard, and first-years Lindsey Cooper and Courtney Comstock. The Lions were unable to match any runs in the sixth, and McCarthy drove the win home with her seventh home run of the season. Halfway through her first season of Blue Jay softball, McCarthy currently stands two homers short of the program single-season record (set by Lori Lobb in 1998) and is also at the midpoint of Lobb’s career record of 14.

The LVC Dutchmen proved they weren’t fooling around by securing both games of a home-turf doubleheader April 1, with scores of 5-4 and 2-1.

After the Dutchmen took the lead in game one, McCarthy was the first Lady Jay to bring in runs. When Peluso hit a single in the top of the second, McCarthy was able to score her fifth two-run homer of the season, bringing the score to 2-1 in favor of Etown.

The Dutchmen surged ahead in the next few innings, but Tanner tied the score up again with a two-run triple in the fifth. However, LVC managed to bring in one more run in the seventh, clinching the game.

In game two, LVC took the lead early on, but the Lady Jays fought back. Senior pinch-runner Meghan Tooley filled in when Sebas-

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Lady Jays 7-0 in MAC play Thomas D. Hagerty Staff Writer

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Jays on course to dominate T Emily M. Reigart Assistant Editor

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ccording to legendary pro golfer Bobby Jones, “Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course: the distance between your ears." The Elizabethtown College golf team is working to master the mental toughness necessary to play great golf.

“So far, the team as a whole has not played up to its full potential, but we are all making significant headway with our individual performances,” junior cocaptain Geoff Quinque remarked. “In the next few weeks, as our season comes to a conclusion, I would expect to see the team hit its stride.”

On Sunday, April 11, the team participated in both the Penn State Harrisburg Spring Classic and Franklin & Marshall College’s Bent Creek Invitational.

At the Bent Creek Invitational, the men shot 321 to place 10th out of 17 teams. Junior Nick Iacono was Etown’s top finisher in 10th place with a score of 76. Sophomores Kent Hersom and Dan Bolstein both carded 81 to earn 31st place.

After the opening round of the Spring Classic, the men combined for a score of 325. Play continued into Monday and ended with 314 in the final round. These scores brought Etown to fourth out of the participating seven teams. Quinque’s 78 and 76 ranked him seventh, and senior John Krajsa shot 80 and 75 to place ninth.

The team placed seventh with a combined score of 331 in the April 8 Blue Jay Classic at the Hershey Country Club.

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tian was walked in the fifth inning, and Tooley was able to come home on an RBI hit by Comstock.

Once again, the Dutchmen pulled ahead in the seventh inning. The Lady Jays were unable to tie up the game, resulting in another win for LVC. “We put up a great fight with LVC, keeping the game tied until the very end when they found a way to win both games,” Church said. “But we're expecting to get another piece of them in May.” In a March 27 doubleheader at The Nest, the Lady Jays suffered a tough loss to fourth-ranked Messiah College.

After being shut out of game one (4-0), Etown took the lead in the first inning of game two with a run scored by Comstock off a two-out single by Sebastian. Allard brought the Jays’ lead to 2-0 in the second, but Messiah scored one run in the third.

McCarthy kept the Falcons at bay with a two-out, tworun triple in the third, bringing the score to 4-1. However, Messiah managed to tie the score by the sixth inning, and the Falcons swooped in to load the bases and tally six runs in the seventh, bringing the final score to 10-4.

“Even though all most people see is an “L” for that game, we see more to it,” Allard said. “Our next game is always our biggest rival — and our biggest concern.”

The Lady Jays will next travel to Lycoming to take on the Warriors this Saturday, April 17, at 1 p.m.

the tournament. Messiah College placed first with 300 followed by second place Penn State Harrisburg’s 301 and third place Albright’s 305.

Junior Dan Senkler led the team with a score of 80, placing 21st overall, while senior co-captain Kurt Amen’s round of 81 tied for 24th place. Bolstein ended with a score of 82 that brought him to 27th place in the tournament.

On April 5, the golf team competed in the Lebanon Valley College (LVC) Spring Invitational. Iacono earned medalist honors with his score of 74, and the team placed fifth out of 20 teams with their 331. Albright took first with 318; Cabrini College had a score of 321; Messiah totaled 323; and Stevenson University finished with 324.

Senkler’s 81 earned him 17th place, and Quinque shot 87 to place 46th, while a score of 89 brought Amen to 58th.

“I now feel like I am starting to make my mark as a collegiate golfer,” Iacono said in reference to his play at LVC. The Blue Jays opened the season with a strong start at the York College Spring Invitational. The team tied for second against the host Spartans with a combined score of 308, its current best for the 2009-10 season. Messiah won with 282.

Amen led the team with a low score of 72, his career best, and the third lowest score out of 50 competitors. Messiah’s Matt Burkhart and Dan Wort were the only players to best Amen with 5-underpar scores of 67. Iacono also carded a career-best with a score of 73, which tied him for fourth place.

The team will compete today at the Susquehanna University Spring Invitational at 1 p.m.

he Elizabethtown College women’s lacrosse team won their last 25 games against conference opponents. The word “bloodbath” has been thrown around at some of the games this season, and Saturday, April 10, was no different. The Lady Jays beat Misericordia 19-2. First-year Melanie Hartman led the team in points (three goals, one assist), while senior Katie Caprinolo and sophomore Kate Slade, in her first game back from a concussion, also scored three times each for a balanced attack.

Last year, it was obvious that the skills of Katie Foley (’09) were the main threat of the offense, but this year is a little different.

Junior Sarah Cullinan likes the balanced attack the Jays have been utilizing this season, as it keeps defenses on their toes.

“The other team can’t concentrate on only one person,” Cullinan said. “They have to be worried about all of us.”

First-year players have been making great contributions to the Middle Atlantic Conference dominance the team has enjoyed this year. First-year goalie Rachel “Weezy” Waldman has played practically nine full games between the pipes after junior Nicole Day went down with a knee injury earlier this year. Five first-year players have played in every game for the Lady Jays this season.

First-year starting defender Alexis Morris says she was looking for a place where she could play earlier in her career rather than later. “I did not want to have to wait until I was a junior to see the field,” Morris said. She has started every game thus far, and is averaging two ground balls, two draw controls and almost two caused turnovers per game this season.

Giving first-year players time on the field also allows them to learn a lot from the older players. Hartman, who has been the leading point-producing first-year with 18 points (13 goals, five assists), said she learns a lot from the upperclassmen. “I learned

that you have to play with a lot of heart,” Hartman said. She certainly has done that thus far, with her four-point performance on Saturday.

Along with stellar play from the firstyears, the upperclassmen have been on fire.

Last Tuesday, April 6, the Lady Jays steamrolled the Dutchmen of Lebanon Valley College (LVC) 21-2 on their own turf. Senior Megan Byrnes reached a milestone with her goal and three assists. She became only the third player to join the 200 career points club. Other seniors led the charge along with Byrnes, as Caprinolo had a game-high four goals and Steph Kreis was dealing with two goals and four assists. Sophomores Katie Scheurich and Sam Reddles also pitched in with three goals each. The Lady Blue Jays outshot the Dutchmen 29-3 in the game, with LVC coughing the ball up 32 times.

On April 1, the Lady Jays hosted the Lycoming Warriors for yet another conference battle. Coach Michael Faith’s squad won the game 22-10, but not without a fight by the Warriors. The Lady Jays found themselves down 5-2 midway through the first half, a position to which they are not very accustomed. The deficit did not last long as the team combined to score five goals in under five minutes. The Lady Jay lead was 11-8 shortly after halftime. Kreis led a scoring attack, helping the Jays outscore the Warriors 11-2 from that point. Kreis set a career high with 10 points (four goals, six assists).

Cullinan had four goals on the day, and Hartman, junior Meg Cassels and Byrnes had three goals apiece to aid in the victory.

The Jays demolished another conference opponent March 27 when they beat King’s College 20-0. Waldman made eight saves to keep the Monarchs out of the scoring summary. Cullinan led the way with five goals and two assists, while Kreis had three goals and five assists in the win. The big story on the day, however, was Caprinolo and Cullinan reaching 100 career points.

Saturday, the Lady Jays will host Manhattanville College at 1 p.m.

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Jays lead Middle Atlantic Conference with six wins Alexis L. Morris Staff Writer

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ednesday, April 14, the Elizabethtown men’s lacrosse team demolished Alvernia in a Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) contest, defeating the Knights 18-2.

Juniors Kurt Deschner and Shawn Corcoran and firstyear Cory Boushell recorded hat tricks in the April 14 blowout of the Alvernia Crusaders. By halftime, Etown had a 14-1 lead, cruising to an 18-2 victory. Ten different Jays scored goals in the game, including two goals each from first-year Sean McGraw and senior Keith Staulters.

Junior Hunter Malick made 12 saves in net.

Last Saturday, the Blue Jays defeated the Misericordia Cougars, increasing their record in the MAC to 4-0. Victories against the Lebanon Valley Dutchmen, Lycoming Warriors, and King’s Monarchs have also contributed to the Blue Jays’ record.

The Blue Jays played at Misericordia April 10, crushing the Cougars 13-3. Senior captain Aaron Weber surpassed alumnus Frankie Puzzangara’s (’07) previous record of 129 goals. Weber scored his 130th career goal in the second quarter of the game. He went on to score two more goals throughout the game, setting a new program record of 132 career goals.

The first quarter started off slow for both teams, but finally, sophomore Derek Neiheiser scored with 7:35 remaining. First-year Nick Thompson was assisted by Boushell to increase Etown’s lead to 2-0 at the end of the first quarter.

Weber scored twice, and senior Jon Day found the net once in the second quarter, making the score 5-0 at halftime. The Blue Jays dominated the third quarter, as junior Greg Ken-

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neally, Weber, senior Josh Dougherty and sophomore Sean O’Neill all scored single goals while Boushell scored twice.

Shawn Corcoran had two assists and Weber contributed one in the third quarter.

In the last quarter of the game, the Cougars finally found some offensive power; they went on a scoring streak resulting in three goals. Junior Shakir Saunders ended that streak with an unassisted goal with 4:22. Junior Brian Schaaf scored the last goal with 1:43 left.

Dougherty led the team with eight ground balls, and junior Mike Kenneally picked up three ground balls and two caused turnovers. Sophomore goalie Brendan Corcoran played the first three quarters, making four saves. Malick played the last quarter, earning one save.

On April 6, the Blue Jays hosted the Dutchmen of Lebanon Valley (LVC). Etown won 18-5, tallying goals from 12 different players and outshooting the Dutchmen 42-18.

Jon Day opened the game with a pair of unassisted goals.

This began Etown’s scoring streak; Weber and Boushell each scored two goals, and Dougherty and Shawn Corcoran added single points to the board. The first quarter ended with the Blue Jays up 8-0. O’Neill assisted Deschner in the opening minutes of the second quarter. LVC finally found the net, scoring twice before the end of the half. Junior Corey Toby, sophomore Dan Patton and O’Neill scored for the Blue Jays, making the score 12-2 at halftime.

Sophomore Drew Stitt, Deschner, Schaaf and O’Neill scored in the second half, and McGraw scored twice. Junior Brent Campbell picked up five ground balls, and Mike Kenneally and first-year Brian Boring tallied four ground balls. Brendan Corcoran started in goal for the Blue Jays and posted one save at the end of the first quarter. Malick played the rest of the game and stopped seven shots.

Jays 4-0 in conference play Sara E. Crimmel Sports Editor Tara B. Hayes Staff Writer

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ednesday, the Elizabethtown College men’s tennis team took on rival Messiah, defeating the Falcons 8-1 and sweeping all six of the singles matches. The win earned the Blue Jays a playoff berth in the Commonwealth Conference championships.

On April 11, the team lost 9-0 to Bridgewater College. Bridgewater only lost one singles match to the Blue Jays. Sophomore Manrique Arrea was the only Blue Jay to play three sets but was ultimately defeated.

On April 10, the team won against Lebanon Valley with a final score of 8-1. In singles, Arrea, first-year Josh Riehl, junior Bryan Metz, first-year Eric Fritzges and junior Brian Osborn won. In doubles, Riehl and Fritzges and senior Brok Walker and Osborn won.

Walker had a personal win when he achieved his 100th victory, making him the first player in Etown men’s tennis history to reach 100 wins in singles and doubles.

“All teams help each other get better, support each other and put forth effort to succeed,” head coach Matt Helsel said.

“In my time here, I've never had a team so aligned in its collective focus.”

The Blue Jays defeated Albright College in a 9-0 shut-out at Albright April 6. Singles wins came at flight one from Arrea, Fritzges and Osborn. In doubles, Arrea and Riehl, Metz and Fritzges, and Osborn and Walker defeated their opponents.

The Blue Jays did not make fools of themselves when they played Arcadia in a match on April 1, winning 7-2.

In singles, Arrea, Riehl, Walker and Frit-

zges each posted wins. In doubles, Arrea and Metz, Riehl and Fritzges, and Walker and first-year Michael Anderson won.

“I believe mental toughness will go a long way in winning a tennis match, and along those lines, being able to bounce back when things are not going your way can show your opponent that he still has some work to do and that you are not going away quietly,” Walker said.

The team suffered a tough defeat against La Salle with a final score of 1-8. The Explorers won five of six singles matches and took all three doubles pro sets against the Blue Jays. Arrea was responsible for the Blue Jays’ only singles victory with a final score of 6-4, 7-5 at flight one.

“La Salle was a tough match. They are a good team, but I did not think we capitalized on the chances we had to take some matches,” Walker said. “As the season progresses, I would expect that we learn from those situations and make the necessary adjustments to come out on the winning end in the future.”

“I expect 100 percent, all the time. Some days it's good enough and some days it isn’t,” Helsel said. “Every match presents its own set of obstacles. How well you stand up to them determines how the match will turn out.”

The Blue Jays battled Stevenson College March 26, winning 9-0. In singles, Arrea, Riehl, Walker, Metz, Fritzges and Anderson took home wins. In doubles, Arrea and Metz, Riehl and Fritzges, and Walker and Anderson won.

“Our objective on any given day is to compete as hard as we can and play as well as we can,” Helsel said.

Saturday the tennis team will take travel to Alvernia to take on the Knights at 1 p.m.

The Lycoming Warriors proved to be much tougher competition for the Blue Jays. During the first quarter of their game April 1, Lycoming scored the first three goals.

After head coach Terry Corcoran took a time-out, the team picked up their intensity, and Shawn Corcoran and Weber scored before the quarter was over. The score went back and forth the whole game; the Blue Jays tied it up at six at halftime. Etown finally took and kept the lead with 6:27 left in the third quarter. Toby, Jon Day, Greg Kenneally and Dougherty all picked up single goals. Shawn Corcoran ended the game with four goals and Weber scored three.

Brendan Corcoran made nine saves.

King’s College did not put up much of a fight March 27, for the Blue Jays were able to defeat them soundly 14-4.

Weber led Etown’s offense with three goals and two assists.

O’Neill, Boushell and Shawn Corcoran all scored twice, and senior Kyle Huckle, Greg Kenneally, Toby, sophomore Derek Karsten and McGraw scored single goals. Brendan Corcoran made 11 saves in the victory.

Now that the Blue Jays are ranked first in the MAC, they must work even harder to maintain their undefeated conference run. As the team looks forward to games against more conference teams, “Any conference game is a big one and all will be tough,” Mike Kenneally said.

Mike Kenneally also attributes the past victories not to individual efforts, but to the entire team.

“Everyone has been playing well, but we have won these games because of the kids in practice,” he said. “The kids that are not getting a lot of playing time in games are making our team better by going hard every day in practice and giving us a good look.”

On Saturday, the Blue Jays will travel to Purchase, N.Y., where they will take on the Valiants of Manhattanville in a MAC contest at 1 p.m.

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Lady Jays on win streak, Swarr hits 100 victories Janna Richards Assistant Sports Editor

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n Sunday, April 11, the women’s tennis team took on Bridgewater College during a home match. They finished the match with a 6-3 win and an 11-2 season record so far. They won five of six singles matches and one of three doubles matches. In singles play, senior Emily Swarr defeated Megan Mathias (6-4, 5-7, 6-4), senior Jess Russell beat Olivia Stone (6-1, 6-2) and first-year Madison Pipkin won against Morgan McGhee (6-3, 6-2).

First-year Alena Marani took on Ally McConaughy (6-3, 5-7, 6-2) and firstyear Kristi Noecker rounded out the singles wins against Amanda Gorby (6-1, 6-0). In doubles play, Swarr and Russell defeated Mathias and Alissa Michael (8-6).

The Lady Jays took on the University of Scranton April 7 and won all nine matches. In singles play, Swarr defeated Deirdre Wylie in a super-tie breaker (3-6, 6-3, 10-8) while Russell won against Danielle Wylie (7-4, 7-3).

First-year Allison Burkhardt defeated Elisha Connell (6-2, 6-2) and Pipkin faced Meghan Wentworth (6-2, 6-0).

Marani defeated Moira McGinn (63, 6-2) and sophomore Sarah Poulle won against Kelly Costello (6-4, 6-2).

In doubles matches, Burkhardt and

Pipkin defeated Costello and McGinn (8-6) while Marani and Noecker won against Caitlin Ehly and Lindsay Ward (8-2). Swarr and Russell also defeated Connell and Danielle Wylie (8-6).

Swarr earned the hundreth win of her career after defeating Wylie in the singles match. Swarr has had a career record of 43-34 in singles play and 57-20 in doubles. She joins four more Lady Jays on the 100-win list including Heather Lander (131), Kristy Trimbey (112), Alice Yu (112) and Stacy Sharpiro (108).

On March 27, the Lady Jays faced the Division I Explorers of La Salle University and took home the win with a 8-1 score. In singles play Swarr took the win against Kiara Smith (61, 6-1) while Russell defeated Allison Amrein (6-0, 6-1). Pipkin, Marani and Noecker all picked up wins in singles play as well. Pipkin defeated Tonya Rice (6-3, 6-1), Marani won against Courtney Babo (6-3, 6-4) and Noecker defeated Pearl Watkins (6-0, 6-2). In doubles matches, Swarr and Russell took on Smith and Amrein (8-5), Pipkin and Burkhardt defeated Elli Vamuakitis and Babo (8-2) and Marani and Noecker won against Rice and Wilkins (8-4).

The Lady Jays will take on Stevenson University today at 4 p.m. and then will face Dickinson College April 19.

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Jays defeat conference opponents, maintain second T. Gavin Nevill Assistant Copy Editor

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he Elizabethtown College baseball team is hitting its stride just in time for conference play. Winners of nine of their last 12 games, the Blue Jays have moved themselves into contention to earn a top four seed and a shot at the post season.

Etown overmatched Juniata in an April 14 non-conference showdown. The Jays cranked out 16 hits and were helped out by Juniata’s five errors in the field. Junior Wayne Leonard went seven strong on the mound, scattering five hits and giving up one run.

In the 16-3 victory, senior Matt Vinagro and sophomore Matt Reade knocked in four runs each.

April 9’s Commonweath Conference match-up against Albright set Etown ace senior Adam Hartzell against Albright’s best pitcher, Casey Lawrence. In a backand-forth game, Hartzell got the best of the Lions’ lineup, going seven innings for the win. Senior Brian Kiernan and junior Anthony Heaps each hit home runs in the 6-5 Etown victory.

Albright and Etown squared off again Saturday, April 10, for a doubleheader at Albright. Etown took both games to sweep the series. In game one, Vinagro was 3-4 at the plate and knocked in three of the Jays’

16 runs. In the second game, Vinagro took the mound and pitched a five-hit gem in a 4-0 Etown win.

On April 6 and 7, the Jays took a break from their conference schedule to play Susquehanna and Shenandoah. The Jays beat Susquehanna in a dramatic comefrom-behind fashion, scoring four runs in the eighth for the 5-3 road victory.

Etown returned home to face Shenandoah, the number 14 team in Division III at the time. The Jays’ offense sputtered, managing just seven hits in the 8-1 loss.

While some teams might take out-ofconference games differently, Kiernan said there is no difference on the field. “[During] conference games, usually you have the crowd here, you have a little more going for you, you really want to win that much more,” Kiernan said. “But as far as our team approach to the game, we really plan on coming and winning every game.”

Etown squared off against the Lebanon Valley Flying Dutchmen April 1, and again April 5 for a doubleheader.

In the April 1 game, the Jays were behind 2-0 and down to their final out in the ninth. With a runner on second, Reade smacked a game-tying home run to send the game to extra innings. Etown went on to win 5-2 in the 10th. Leonard

got the win, and Vinagro secured his first save of the year.

Etown dropped its first game April 5 but responded with a 6-5 victory in game two.

This time, the heroics came courtesy of sophomore Tim Rosser and his RBI double in the bottom of the seventh inning. The win gave the Jays a 2-1 series win over the first-place Dutchmen.

“It wasn’t pretty,” head coach Cliff Smith said. “We had to rally a couple times, and we kind of had our back to the wall.”

On March 31, Etown welcomed Messiah to Kevin Scott Boyd Stadium.

“Messiah is a very good team,” Kiernan said. “Obviously, they’re our main rivals, so there’s always bad blood between us.”

The Jays dug themselves an early 4-0 deficit but fought their way back in the game.

“Our guys could have packed it in and said, ‘How are we going to score four runs?

We’ve been struggling to score four runs up to this point.’ But they went out, they had good at bats,” Smith said. “We get a couple hits. We get a couple cheap hits, next thing you know, we’re confident.”

Etown rode their confidence into a 20-hit performance at the plate. First-year Dillon Tagle was 4-4 and Francis, Vinagro and Kiernan had three hits each. The Jays cruised to a 13-7 win. Junior Greg Katz pitched 3.1 scoreless innings for the save.

The win came just four days after Etown and Messiah split a doubleheader at Messiah on March 27.

When Franklin and Marshall (F&M) came to town for a March 28 matchup, the Jays were on the brink of defeat, down 5-2 entering the bottom of the ninth. When other teams may fold under pressure, Etown appears to have a knack for overcoming late-game deficits.

“We seem to kind of get a second wind and just take control and start hitting the ball and being more aggressive,” Francis said.

At the end of an unlikely rally that started with a single from sophomore Steve Motika, a throwing error by F&M allowed first-year Kyle Gable to score the game-winning run in a 6-5 Etown victory.

Etown currently sits in second place in the conference with a 17-8 record overall and a 9-3 mark against conference opponents.

“I’m definitely happy with where we’re at in the standings,” Smith said. “I’m very pleased with the effort that our guys are giving for the most part. I genuinely think they care. They’ve been playing hard. What we just need to do is continue to keep the same approach week in and week out.”

Today, the Blue Jays travel to Lancaster to take on the Lancaster Barnstormers in a non-conference game at 3:30 p.m.

Photo: Tyler Drolet

track and field

Jays continue to improve, Torre qualifies for NCAAs Alysa D. Poindexter Staff Writer

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he Blue Jays have been kicking up the dust with impressive performances at some of their most recent meets, including the Messiah Invitational Classic, the Millersville Spring Opener and the W&L Carnival meets.

On April 10, the men and women kept their determination going at the Messiah Invitational Classic. First-year Pam Jaraczewski won the 200 meters and placed ninth on Etown’s all-time performance list.

The relay team of seniors Wyatt Eaton and Mike Mauger, sophomore Pat Doughty and first-year Brandon Walters made a time of 43.99 seconds to finish first in the 4x100-meter relay. Sophomore Brian Allport, senior Kyle Grimm, Eaton and first-year Luke Rotenberger also took first in the 4x400 relay with a time of 3:26:10.

The 4x400 relay team of Jaraczewski, first-years Ashley Lockwood and Katy Fogel and junior Allie Gold won with a time of 51.77 seconds, while the 4x400 team of first-year and Etownian assistant sports editor, Janna Richards, sophomore Jill Patrick, senior Bernadette Frawley and Lockwood finished second. Gold, sophomore Nicole Lipari and Fogel placed in the finals during the 100 hurdles.

Gold came in third with a time of 16.11 seconds, Fogel placed fourth with 16.84, and Lipari placed seventh with 18.10. Senior Megan VanDenHengel came in second in the 1500-meter run.

Fellow senior Sarah Merusi came in fifth place during the 5,000-meter run, and soon after, junior Teresa Beshore finished sixth. Junior Sarah Steinmetz placed fifth in the 10,000-meters. Sophomore Crystal Connelly found fifth in the shot put, sixth in the discus and seventh in the hammer throw. Keeping up the impressive Blue Jay performances were Rotenberger, who placed third in the 400-meter hurdles, and Allport, who finished fourth in the 400-meter.

In the field events, senior Mike Torre took third in the javelin at 176 feet, 9 inches while first-year Cameron Aregood took fifth with a throw of 170 feet, 10 inches.

The teams kept their competitive edge in the Millersville Spring Opener April 3. VanDenHengel won the

steeplechase with a time of 11:30.41, narrowly missing the Jensen and sophomore Mark Weber completed the relay school record of 11:30:14, which was set by alumna Tif- in 7:57.23, earning first place in the 4x800. Holding the fany Kulp (’09). In the 400-meter hurdles, Fogel finished school record in the javelin, Torre took fourth in the event eighth with a time of 1:10:69. With a score of 17.28, she with a throw of 167 feet, four inches. also won fifth in the 100-meter hurdles. Clearing 4 feet In the heptathlon, Fogel finished seventh with 3,198 8 inches, Fogel is now tied for seventh with sophomore points, making her fourth of all time. During her other Kristen Kilpeck in the high jump. In distance, Beshore three performances, Fogel made top 10, coming in sixth was timed at 11:26:32, putting her in tenth. First-year place in the 100-meter hurdles, ninth in high jump and Kathryn Ritter placed ninth in the javelin. seventh in javelin.

The men had a record-setting meet as well. Torre First-year Jenna Niedermayer placed third in the threw 194 feet 1 inch, which not only broke his own all-time list in long jump and sixth in the triple jump. record of 186 feet, 3 inches, but also qualified him for Jaraczewski and Lockwood along with teammate Gold the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Cham- placed sixth in their event and overall with a time of 51.65. pionships. Sophomore Colby Miller finished second in Making it to fifth place on Etown’s record list durthe 3,000-meter run in 8:49.61, the third best score in ing this meet, junior hammer thrower Sarah DeGeorge Etown history. First-year Aaron Focht placed third in the marked 94 feet and 4 inches. overall meet with 8:51.09 and fifth in the school’s top 10.

Friday and Saturday, the men’s and women’s track team Junior Chris Heisey placed sixth with a time of 8:49.61. will compete in the Widener Invitational.

Running into eighth place with a time of 9:03.38 was sophomore Charlie Larsen.

Sophomore Evan DeArmitt finished third in the 1500-meter run with a time of 3:59.99. In the 4x100-meter, the relay team of Walters, Eaton, Mauger and Doughty finished fourth in 43:37 seconds. Senior Austin Hayes debuted on the program top 10 list in eighth place, with a javelin throw of 148 feet, 8 inches.

Both the men and women kept up their score streaks at the Washington & Lee Carnival meet March 26-27. Miller won the 10,000 meters in 31:51.64, becoming one of four Etown runners to finish in the top seven in the event and seventh on the all-time list. DeArmitt took second with a time of 31:51.97.

Photo: EtownBlueJays.com The team of sophomore Russell Senior Mike Torre throws the javelin, the event in which he set the school Speiden, Focht, first-year Matt record Saturday, April 3 and provisionally qualified for NCAA Championships.

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Spring athletes recognized by conference Sara E. Crimmel Sports Editor

ue to the infrequency of printings in the last few months, the Etownian would like to take this opportunity to recognize the athletes who have stood out for their accomplishments in their respective sports.

Seniors Brok Walker and Stephanie Kreis, sophomores Brendan Corcoran and Todd Leister, and first-years Alexis Morris and Rachael Waldman earned Player of

the Week honors from the Middle Atlantic Conference. Junior Nick Iacono earned medalist honors at the Lebanon Valley College Spring Invitational. Senior Emily Swarr reached 100 career wins, while senior Mike Torre set the school record and provisionally qualified for NCAAs in the javelin throw.

Senior Sarah Church reached her 100th career hit in Wednesday’s doubleheader against DeSales.

The Etownian congratulates these athletes and wishes them continued success.

Emily Swarr

Brendan Corcoran

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Nick Iacono

Alexis Morris

Brok Walker

Stephanie Kreis

Sports Recap Baseball (17-8, 9-3) Etown 3, Messiah 0 Messiah 6, Etown 0 Etown 6, F & M 5 Etown 13, Messiah 7 Etown 5, Lebanon Valley 2 Lebanon Valley 7, Etown 1 Etown 6, Lebanon Valley 5 Etown 5, Susquehanna 3 Shenandoah 8, Etown 1 Etown 6, Albright 5 Etown 16, Albright 7 Etown 4, Albright 0 Etown 16, Juniata 3 Golf York College Invitational Tied 2nd of 8 (308) Lebanon Valley College Spring Invitational 5th of 20 (331) Elizabethtown College Spring Blue Jay Classic 7th of 12 (331) Penn State Harrisburg Invitational 4th of 7 (639) Franklin & Marshall College Spring Invitational 10th of 17 (321) Men’s Lacrosse (8-2, 6-0) Etown 14, King’s 4 Etown 11, Lycoming 8 Etown 18, Lebanon Valley 5 Etown 13, Misericordia 3 Etown 18, Alvernia 2

Rachael Waldman

Mike Torre

Todd Leister

Sarah Church

Women’s Lacrosse (8-3, 7-0) Etown 20, King’s 0 Etown 22, Lycoming 10 Etown 21, Lebanon Valley 2 Etown 19, Misericordia 2 Softball (14-7-1, 4-4-0) Messiah 4, Etown 0 Messiah 10, Etown 4 Lebanon Valley 5, Etown 4 Lebanon Valley 2, Etown 1 Etown 6, Albright 5 Etown 9, Albright 1 Etown 7, DeSales 3 Etown 4, DeSales 1

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Athlete of the Week Aaron Weber

Sara E. Crimmel Sports Editor

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he Etownian is pleased as punch to announce that senior lacrosse captain Aaron Weber has been named Athlete of the Week!

In Wednesday’s 18-2 win over Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) opponent Alvernia University, Weber scored one goal and made three assists, earning a total of five points for the game.

In last Saturday’s win over Misericordia University, Weber became the Blue Jays’ offensive career leader, breaking Frankie Puzzangara’s (’07) career goals

record by scoring his 130th career goal. He also made four assists, earning seven points for the game.

Weber scored three goals

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Saturday and one goal Wednesday, setting the career goals mark at 133. Weber also holds the team records for points (229) and assists (95).

Weber’s offense has led the Blue Jays to an 8-2 record overall and a 6-0 record in the MAC this season. The Blue Jays currently lead the MAC, despite being picked fourth in the preseason poll.

Last season, Weber was named to the MAC’s First Team All-Conference, one of only two Blue Jays to receive the honor.

The Etownian congratulates Weber for his success on the field and for being named Athlete of the Week!

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Men’s Tennis (8-4, 4-0) Etown 9, Stevenson 0 La Salle 8, Etown 1 Etown 7, Arcadia 2 Etown 9, Albright 0 Etown 8, Lebanon Valley 1 Bridgewater 9, Etown 0 Etown 8, Messiah 1 Women’s Tennis (11-2, 6-0) Etown 8, La Salle 1 Etown 9, University of Scranton 0 Etown 6, Bridgewater 3 Men’s Track and Field W&L Carnival No team score Millersville Spring Opener No team score Messiah Invitational No team score Bison Outdoor Classic No team score Women’s Track and Field W&L Carnival No team score Millersville Spring Opener No team score Messiah Invitational No team score Bison Outdoor Classic No team score

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